Our new study in Nature Communications mapped #landcover changes in EU in the past 20 years, and found that re-vegetation of 15 Mha of abandoned cropland cooled #regionalclimate in West EU. Potential synergies between #climatechange mitigation and adaptation nature.com/articles/s4146…

Land cover change can feedback on climate change. This study shows that agricultural abandonment across Europe in 1992-2015 had a cooling effect, but there were also more complex, regional effects Xiangping Hu Francesco Cherubini NTNU IndEcol NTNU nature.com/articles/s4146…

Abandoned cropland helps make Europe cooler phys.org/news/2020-02-a… via Phys.org Francesco Cherubini NTNU IndEcol NTNU

recent land cover change cooling Europe

New study: Europe has cooled (1992-2015) due to land cover transitions to forests. Europe warms with changes from forests to cropland, urban. Forest loss can warm a locality 1°C/10 yrs. Thermometers in deforested areas thus record non-climate warming. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Vegetation holds key to climate control | Climate News Network climatenewsnetwork.net/vegetation-hol…

Global Warming Solved! Scientists Find Reforestation Can Cool The Surface By 2-6°C Relative To Grassland Area iowaclimate.org/2020/05/04/glo… via Iowa Climate 🇺🇸 nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢We have extended the deadline for #abstract submissions of our "1st International Electronic #Conference on #Land: Towards Land System #Science" to #February28 2022. 👉🏻Visit iecl2022.sciforum.net and do not miss the chance to present your latest research at #IECL2022!

Open for submissions: Interactions Between Land Surface and Climate Frontiers - Environmental Science frontiersin.org/researchtopic/…

New #machinelearning based model to predict how #forestmanagement affects land temperature #LST. Better accuracy than regional climate models! Mature #forests warmer than younger, and historical harvests caused annual mean cooling (but warming in summer) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Forest cover modulates the impacts of precipitation and temperature on drought. The effects are various across climate zones and time scales. More details can be explored in a recently published paper in the journal HESS Hess Corporation Forest Drought hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/32… pic.x.com/OQUzbc3QDL

Do you download, read and analyse #CMIP data for model evaluation and benchmarking? Last opportunity to complete the #model benchmarking #modelevaluation @wcrpcmip survey. airtable.com/applbQctZtl09L… World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) please share

Model Benchmarking Task Team meet to advance Rapid Evaluation Tool wcrp-cmip.org/model-benchmar… @wcrpcmip WCRP Cordex NTNU

New research using #RegionalClimateModel to investigate #ForestHarvesting affects #Climate in Fennoscandia. Less #harvesting induces summer cooling by increasing cloud cover. More deciduous #forests lead to sciencedirect.com/science/articl…